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<h4>Quick Breakdown&nbsp;</h4>
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 <li style="font-weight: 400;">Anthropic is reportedly raising $10B, targeting a $350B valuation led by GIC and Coatue</li>
 <li style="font-weight: 400;">AI funding hit record levels in 2025, with nearly half of global venture capital flowing into the sector</li>
 <li style="font-weight: 400;">Anthropic plans to break even by 2028 and is expected to pursue an IPO this year</li>
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Anthropic, the artificial intelligence startup behind the Claude chatbot, is reportedly in talks to raise as much as $10 billion in a new funding round that would value the company at around $350 billion, according to a <a style="color: #0000ff;" href="https://www.wsj.com/tech/ai/anthropic-raising-10-billion-at-350-billion-value-62af49f4" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow">report</a> by The Wall Street Journal.
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 Anthropic is gearing up for another massive funding round.
 A reported $10B raise at a $350B valuation, led by GIC and Coatue. Just four months ago, Anthropic raised $13B at a $183B valuation.
 That’s nearly a 2× jump in valuation in about 4 months. The capital intensity of the… <a href="https://t.co/AWViGRBaqG" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow">pic.twitter.com/AWViGRBaqG</a>
 — GenAI_Now (@GenAI_Now) <a href="https://twitter.com/GenAI_Now/status/2009244662142521554?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow">January 8, 2026</a>
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Singapore’s sovereign wealth fund GIC and hedge fund Coatue Management are expected to lead the round, which could close in the coming weeks. Sources cited by the Journal noted that the final deal size may still change.
If completed, the raise would nearly double Anthropic’s valuation from its <a style="color: #0000ff;" href="https://www.anthropic.com/news/anthropic-raises-series-f-at-usd183b-post-money-valuation" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow">reported</a> $183 billion level in September, following a $13 billion Series F round backed by ICONIQ Capital, Fidelity Management &amp; Research, and Lightspeed Venture Partners.
<h3 id="span-style-font-weight-400-ai-investment-momentum-shows-no-signs-of-slowing-span">AI investment momentum shows no signs of slowing</h3>
The potential funding underscores sustained investor confidence in artificial intelligence, following a record $222 billion raised by AI companies in 2025, as competition intensifies among firms racing to dominate the next phase of technological innovation.
Anthropic was founded in 2021 by former Google researcher Dario Amodei and his sister Daniela Amodei. The company has gained strong adoption among enterprise users, particularly for Claude’s advanced coding and reasoning capabilities.
The Journal also reported that the latest funding would be separate from up to $15 billion in planned investments from Nvidia and Microsoft, further strengthening Anthropic’s capital base.
<h3 id="span-style-font-weight-400-break-even-target-and-ipo-plans-take-shape-span">Break-even target and IPO plans take shape</h3>
Anthropic is reportedly targeting profitability by 2028, earlier than rival OpenAI’s projected timeline. The company is also expected to pursue an initial public offering later this year, while OpenAI is said to be separately seeking up to $100 billion at a $750 billion valuation.
According to Crunchbase, AI startups captured nearly half of all global venture funding in 2025, up from 34% the previous year. While Crunchbase pegs total AI funding slightly lower at $202 billion, the trend reflects growing investor conviction in the sector.
OpenAI led the year’s biggest single raise with a $40 billion SoftBank-backed round in March, while several other AI firms, including Anthropic, Scale AI, Project Prometheus, and Elon Musk’s xAI, <a style="color: #0000ff;" href="https://defi-planet.com/2024/05/elon-musks-xai-secures-6-billion-in-series-b-funding-aims-to-rival-openai/" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow">secured</a> funding rounds exceeding $5 billion.
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